LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. To His Excellency, L. M. Shaw, Governor of the State of Iowa: In compliance with legal requisition, I have the honor of submitting to you herewith the thirty-third annual report of the Iowa State Horticultural Society, including the reports of the four district societies into which the state is now divided. Allow me to express the hope that the society will have the continued support and kind consideration of the executive and our legislature. GEO. H. VAN HOUTEN, LENOX, Iowa, Dec. 19, 1898. Secretary. 56142 OFFICERS OF THE IOWA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The society keeps open office in the state house, at Des Moines, where all communications should be addressed. and where inquiries may be made on horticultural subjects. The society desires to be a bureau of information for the tree-planting public, and will cheerfully give information on all horticultural subjects. Specimens of fruit and other objects of interest solicited, and will receive attention. C.F. Gardner, President..... Osage ... Waukee Lenox Harlan DIRECTORS. First District-G. B. Brackett.... - Denmark Second District-Abner Branson... New Sharon Third District–J. P. Jackson... .Glenwood Fourth District-Wesley Greene.. Davenport Fifth District-W. O. Willard ...Grinnell Sixth District-A. L. Plummer ... Ivy Seventh District-B. Shontz Correction ville Eighth District-R. P. Speer. Cedar Falls Ninth District-B. F. Ferris.. .Hampton Tenth District-P. F. Kinne ... Storm Lake Eleventh District-Elmer Reeves.. Waverly Twelfth District-Eugene Secor. Forest City STANDING COMMITTEES FOR 1899. By change in the rules the list of standing committees is omitted. The appointments for next year's program will be made and notice sent, at the convenience of the executive committee. Other committees may be found by consulting the index. This change was made for the purpose of giving more time for making up the committees. |